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Jimmy Choo has the potential to be a $1bn dollar brand and the success of its integration into the Michael Kors group has made its new owner hungry for more acquisitions and happy to accelerate its accessories expansion.

The brand has joined a growing list of labels mixing up the fashion calendar, announcing that the Spring 2019 collection will show in June 2018, the first step in a revised schedule hailing a new rhythm for the brand.

Snuffing out rumours that Gazal, which handles brands such as Calvin Klein in Australia, could potentially buy Oroton, it has been confirmed the handbag brand's major stakeholder Will Vicars plans to bail it out.

Tapestry Inc.'s Coach has named Laura Dubin-Wander the new president for North America and Fredrik Malm the new president for Coach Europe and Coach International. Tapestry has also added two members to its board.

​Kate Spade has opened its first full-price standalone UK store outside of central London with its Bluewater debut. The Tapestry-owned brand has opened close to sister label Coach’s still-new location.

Outdoor sports retailer Snow + Rock is the latest addition to Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, England. With a retail floor area of 13,000 sq ft, this is one of the largest Snow + Rock stores in the UK.

Saint Laurent's Francesca Bellettini and Calvin Klein's Steve Shiffman revealed their strategies for facing the market's new challenges at the New York Times International Luxury Conference in Brussels.

Nicola Glass will join the handbag and accessories brand in early 2018, and will succeed Deborah Lloyd who is leaving the company. Glass currently serves as SVP of Accessories and Design at Michael Kors.

Coach has opened its first southeast England store outside of London with a debut at Bluewater, Europe’s biggest mall. The move is part of its regional strategy that is widening distribution of its core leathergoods.

Iconic luxury handbag maker Coach Inc risked Wall Street and social media ire on Wednesday by announcing a change of its corporate name to Tapestry Inc, as it evolves into a multi-brand upscale retailer.

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Long necks, large chins, flapping ears, crooked noses: welcome to Ugly Models, a London modelling agency of a different stripe that will be providing several models strutting down the catwalk during LFW.

Net-A-Porter is expanding its content creation to meet customer demand for more and more frequent stories with the launch of Porter Digital, an online platform delivering daily editorial content in four languages.

The key word of the just-finished New York season was Me Too. The founder of this movement against sexual assault Tarana Burke even sat front-row at one show, Prabal Gurung. Its influence was subtle yet truly apparent.

Marc Jacobs, the darling of US high-fashion, brought New York Fashion Week to a dramatic finale with show-stopping sharp hats, huge flourishes and extravagant scarves redrawing the silhouette of his woman for fall 2018.

Facing slowing global demand for diamond jewellery, international diamond companies are reshaping marketing campaigns to tap a growing pool of independent female spenders in China, the world's second largest economy.

A fashion show inspired by the #MeToo social media campaign aimed at exposing sexual misconduct across the United States opened on Friday in New York with models sporting angel wings handcuffed to men in pig masks.

Indonesian designer Vivi Zubedi made her New York solo runway show debut Sunday, wowing the crowd with her abaya-only collection as she hopes to capitalize on the growing market for modest, Muslim fashions.

Hurricane Maria left her atelier without power. Her seamstresses lost everything and her house flooded but Puerto Rican designer Stella Nolasco put tragedy behind her to bring color and optimism to New York Fashion Week.

Fullbeauty's Swimsuits for All has launched a limited-edition inclusive swim collection for Resort 2018 in collaboration with plus-size model and activist Ashley Graham. The campaign features Graham and her mother.

You might love nothing more than browsing the beauty aisles for a quick pick-me-up, but do you open the "tester" tubes? If the answer is a resounding "no," you're not alone, as beauty consumers move to virtual platforms.